Dopamine 101

To protect themselves from honesty, and the unconsciousness required to continue indulging addictions, confederates play a filmy but effective dopamine game called I’ll Let You Deny Your Addictions If You Let Me Deny Mine.

In a previous post I expressed my appreciation for Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s “Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain.” This time around I’d like to address a few reservations.

Heliocentrism, an astronomical model, took decades to go from poppycock to common knowledge because it threatened dopamine flow by turning everyone’s world right side up. Neurocentrism, a behavioral model, might take years to gain widespread acceptance because it threatens dopamine flow by turning everyone’s world outside in.